The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-01-08
OVER THE STATE.

Senator George last week Sc
cured the consent of the Senate to
take up the bill for establishment
of experimental agricultural and.
horticultural stations at the varis
GUS Agricultural Colleges Of the
country at an early day after the
holidays. We think this bill is
almost certain to pass, and il so it
will be of incalculable value to the
agricultural States. and of more
value to Mississippi than any 9TH
er for the reason that her college
is in condition to avail itself fully
of all the advantages 1t offers.
Gen. Stephen d. Lee has been
from the first a stalwart advocate
of the proposed measure.-Aber.
deem Examiner.
Is it not strange that the Wor.
thy Master, Put Darden, who it is
presumed would be posted on
everything pertaining to the farm
ing interest, should be so badly
misled, and boast of the repeal Of
the lien law by the influence of the
Oranges OF this State in his annual
report when in fact the law re-
pealed and the law as 1t now
stands, in its practical working,
does not differ worth q hill Of
beans. We would like for the
authors of this huge joke, called
the repeal Of the lien law, to be
made to come up and let the farm
ers of the State know what they
really thought they were repeal.
ing and wherein it differed from
the law as II now stands. Is it
possible that those as soon as
elected to the Legislature think
that all outside of the Legislative
halls are so dull of acumen as not
to be able to define their change
of verbiage, which for some time
did mislead those mostly interest.
ed in the repeal of the lien law I
Lexington Advertiser.
We would observe that it is q
grave mistake to encourage what
some appear to be be seeking
that is, to have the farmers array
ed against the merchants and the
merchants against the farmers.
This is the trick Of the demagogue
and ofiice-seekers, who hopes to
advance his own selfish interests
by the prejudices thus aroused,
and wise and thoughtful men
should be ware of all such wolves
in sleeps clothing. Our county
has already been sufficiently ours.
ed by such men and their hypo-
critical methods. In truth, there
is no necessity for antagonism be.
tween the merchant and farmer.
Both are following strictly legiti.
mate callings, and each, in q large
measure, is dependent upon the
other, SO that only the friendliest
and most confidential relations
should exist between them.
We cannot say half we would
like to say on this subject in one
article, but we will add in conclu.
sion that In onr opinion, q very
common mistake made by many
well.meaning people, is to charge
to the merchant or the farmer, as
the case may be, what is more
truly chargeable to the credit sys.
TEN under which Mississippi far.
mers and merchants ever since
the war have been doing business.
1t is not in the nature of things
that the farmer can pay the prices
he has had to pay and prosper,
and 1t is equally true that 1t is not
In the nature of things that the
merchant can borrow money, sell
to farmers on credit and take all
the risks he does, without charg.
ing Uig prices. The result of the
long experiment has been the
bankrupting of thousands of mer.
chants and the impoverishment oi
the farmers, preventing the genu'
Inc prosperity of either class
There ere no doubt merchants
who are guilty Of outrageous ex
tortion, and farmers who act in
bad faith and defraud their mer
chant creditors In the most con
scienceless manner, but such are
the exceptions and not the goner
al rule. The remedy, we think
for the evils complained of is tc
return as speedily and nearly al
possible, to cash basis, and as
soon as may be abolish the deed
OF trust system. There is much Of
common sense and much of prom
Use in the declaration of the Mt
Zion Farmers' Institute where
they say: "We will adopt a,
soon as possible, a strictly casf
system, and in order to accom-
plish this, we pledge ourselves tt
. use the most rigid economy, ts
I deny ourselves the comforts ant